LG's Rumor2 for Sale Via Alltel as the Banter

Today, Alltel launched the LG Banter, which is a re-badged version of the LG Rumor2. The biggest changes the Banter has when compared to the Scoop are an expanded QWERTY keyboard with more rows to make typing easier. It also brings stereo Bluetooth, support for 16GB microSD cards, and it improves the display to QVGA resolution. It carries over the original's 1.3 megapixel camera, but will have a slightly different design when compared to the LG Rumor2, which Sprint announced earlier today. Pricing information was not immediately available.

Reading through the specs and seeing the picture of it, I have to question why anyone would want it. It's not really a step forward from the Rumor. The extra row is nice, so it's like a small shuffle forward.